John Cassidy

John Cassidy has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1995. In
2012, he began writing a daily column about politics and economics on
newyorker.com. He has covered two Presidential elections, and has
written extensively about the Trump Administration. He is also a regular
contributor to The New Yorker’s political podcast, “Politics and
More.” He has written many articles for the magazine, on topics ranging
from Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke to the intelligence failures before
the Iraqi War and the economics of John Maynard Keynes. He is the author
of two books: “How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic
Calamities” and
“Dot.Con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era.” Before joining
The New Yorker, he worked for the Sunday Times of London and the
Post. He graduated from Oxford University in 1984 and from the
Columbia School of Journalism in 1986. He grew up in Leeds, West
Yorkshire.